PBDB Collection

Chera 0: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Spain

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Normapolles sp.	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005
Amphibia - Temnospondyli

	Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)	Company and Szentesi 2012	1 specimen
	MGUPV-6 (fragmentary right radioulna) - "Anura indet. 2"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Discoglossidae

	Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758	Company et al. 1999	1 specimen
	= ? Discoglossidae indet. Günther 1859	Company and Szentesi 2012
	MGUPV-5 (fragmentary right humerus)
Reptilia - Nodosauridae

	Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
	= Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923	Company et al. 1999
	= ? Struthiosaurus sp. Bunzel 1870	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae

	Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908	Ösi and Prondvai 2013
	Unpublished
Reptilia - Rhabdodontidae

	Rhabdodon priscus (Matheron 1869)	Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2006
Reptilia - Theropoda

	Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881	Company et al. 1999
Reptilia - Abelisauridae

	cf. Arcovenator sp. Tortosa et al. 2014	Isasmendi et al. 2022
Reptilia

	Paraves indet. Sereno 1997	Isasmendi et al. 2022
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae

	Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969	Isasmendi et al. 2022
Reptilia

	Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885	Company et al. 1999	37 specimens
	= Lirainosaurus sp. Sanz et al. 1999	Suñer et al. 2008
	= Lirainosaurus cf. astibiae Sanz et al. 1999	Company et al. 2009
	MGUV 16438, 16450, 16448-16449, 17016, 17027-17028, 17045, 17090, 17092-17094, 17097, 17101, 17105, 17165-17166, 17168-17169, 17192, 17194, 17229, 17235, 17238, 17274, 17286, 17294-17295, 17314-17315, 17320, 17332, 17337, 17513, 17539, 17645, 17683

	Musturzabalsuchus sp. Buscalioni et al. 1997	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005

	Acynodon sp. Buscalioni et al. 1997	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005

	Doratodon sp. Seeley 1881	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005	1 specimen
	= Doratodon ibericus n. sp. Company et al. 2005	Company et al. 2005
	MGUV 3201 - holotype (incomplete left mandible with dentition)
Reptilia - Lacertilia

	Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842	Company et al. 1999
Reptilia - Testudines

	cf. Polysternon sp. Portis 1882	Company et al. 1999
	= Polysternon sp. Portis 1882	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005

	cf. Dortoka sp. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Company et al. 1999
	= Dortoka sp. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005
Reptilia

	cf. Solemys sp. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Company et al. 1999
	= Solemys sp. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825	Company et al. 1999
Gastropoda

	Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005
Gastropoda - Thiaridae

	Pyrgulifera armata	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005
Ostracoda

	Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005
unclassified

	Charophyta indet. Migula 1890	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005
Charales - Characea

	Peckichara pectinata	Company Rodríguez et al. 2005
see common names

Geography

Country:	Spain	State/province:	Valencia
Coordinates:	39.6° North, 1.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	30.3° North, 0.2° East
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Altitude:	592 meters
Geographic resolution:	local area

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous

Key time interval:	Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:	83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Sierra Perenchiza
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: Early to Middle Campanian; single bed, outcrop Company & Szentesi (2012) list this formation as late Campanian to early Maastrichtian

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	silty,carbonaceous marl
Secondary lithology:	lime mudstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "The formation is composed of fresh-water carbonate marls and limestones. The taxa collected and the sedimentological traits suggest a swamp or lacustrine environment"
Environment:	mire/swamp

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:	some
Disassociated minor elements:	some

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some macrofossils
Collection methods:	selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Turtles, crocodyliformes, other dinosaurs, lizards, amphibians

Metadata

Database number:	53918
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion	Enterer:	K. Maguire, P. Mannion, M. Carrano, J. Tennant
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-09-16 11:17:24	Last modified:	2022-07-01 14:32:42
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-09-16 11:17:24
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

30625.

ETE

J. L. Sanz. 1986. Nouveaux gisements de dinosaures dans le Crétacé espagnol [New dinosaur localities in the Spanish Cretaceous]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse 81-88 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

17647	ETE	J. I. Canudo and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2003. Los restos directos de dinosaurios teropódos (excluyendo Aves) en España [Direct remains of theropod dinosaurs (excluding Aves) in Spain]. Ciencias de la Tierra 26:347-373 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82063		J. Company. 2006. Bone histology of the ornithopod dinosaur Rhabdodon from the Late Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula—preliminary data. In P. Pazonyi (ed.), 4th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists. Hantkeniana 82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
37234		J. Company. 2011. Bone histology of the titanosaur Lirainosaurus astibiae (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Latest Cretaceous of Spain. Naturwissenschaften 98:67-78 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17659	ETE	J. Company, X. Murelaga, X. Pereda-Suberbiola and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 1999. The vertebrate fauna from the new Late Cretaceous Chera locality (Valencia province, Spain). In J. I. Canudo & G. Cuenca-Bescós (ed.), IV European Workshop on Vertebrate Paleontology. Programme and Abstracts. Field Guide 47-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14546	ETE	J. Company, X. Pereda Suberbiola, J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca and A. D. Buscalioni. 2005. A new species of Doratodon (Crocodyliformes: Ziphosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Spain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(2):343-353 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32749	ETE	J. Company, X. Pereda Suberbiola, and J. I. Ruiz-Omenaca. 2009. Nuevos restos fosiles del dinosaurio Lirainosaurus (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) en el Cretacico Superior (Campaniano-Maastrichtiano) de la Peninsula Iberica. Ameghiniana 46(2):391-405 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
42686		J. Company and Z. Szentesi. 2012. Amphibians from the Late Cretaceous Sierra Perenchiza Formation of the Chera Basin, Valencia Province, Spain. Cretaceous Research 37:240-245 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
14531	ETE	J. Company Rodríguez. 2005. Longbone histology of Lirainosaurus astibiae (Sauropodomorpha: Titanosauria) from the Upper Campanian of Chera, Spain. Current Research in Vertebrate Palaeontolgy. 3rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP). Kaupia 14:75 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
14529	ETE	J. Company Rodríguez, M. Feist, D. Peyrot, E. Barron, F. Robles, J. Pereda-Suberbiola, and J. I. Ruiz-Omenaca. 2005. Stratigraphic position and palaeoenvironmental traits of the Late Cretaceous vertebrate-bearing sites of Chera (Valencia, Spain), based on micropalaeontological data. Current Research in Vertebrate Palaeontolgy. 3rd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP). Kaupia 14:76 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
76795		F. Escaso, A. Pérez-García, F. Ortega and J. L. Sanz. 2010. Ankylosaurian evidence from the Upper Cretaceous of South- Central Pyrenees (Lleida, Spain): a reappraisal. 8th Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists. Abstract Volume 33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55204		A. Galobart, A. Santos-Cubedo, M. Suñer and J. I. Canudo. 2011. Paleontological discoveries and studies. In À. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 1-23 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
80599		E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55310		O. Oms, V. Riera, and C. Santisteban. 2011. The geological context: the Upper Cretaceous peninsula. In A. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 45-55 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46669		A. Ösi and E. Prondvai. 2013. Sympatry of two ankylosaurs (Hungarosaurus and cf. Struthiosaurus) in the Santonian of Hungary. Cretaceous Research 44:58-63 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
82064		X. Pereda-Suberbiola, J. Company, and J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca. 2006. Rhabdodontid ornithopod remains from the Late Cretaceous of Chera (Valencia, Iberian Peninsula): a tentative assignment. In P. Pazonyi (ed.), 4th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists. Hantkeniana 5:101 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55386		M. Suñer, B. Poza, B. Vila and A. Santos-Cubedos. 2008. Síntesis del registro fósil de dinosaurios en el Este de la Península Ibérica [Synthesis of the fossil record of dinosaurs in the eastern Iberian Peninsula]. Palaeontologica Nova 8:397-420 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]